Read each statement carefully and mark SA=Strong Agree, A=Agree, Strongly Disagree=SD, or Disagree=D
1. I have had the distinct experience of having reality alter my own personal point of view about something. 2. I recognize there are things about what it means to be a human being inside the universe which I will never truly understand. 3. I am interested in my point of view tracking as much reality as I can take in at any given moment. 4. I sometimes like distancing myself from myself and contemplating how I might appear to other persons. 5. The only meaningful definition of religion has to entail the acquisition of a true, that is, objective, apprehension of what, in an ultimate metaphysical sense, is the case. 6. Mystical experiences do not necessarily have a one-to-one correspondence with reality. 7. Maharishi was probably wrong when he said no one has to suffer. I have never known anyone for whom this is true--including Maharishi himself. 8. I like to conceive of my life as the opportunity to discover everything I can about what is determining my point of view about myself and my point of view about those things that matter to me. 9. There is definitely a place for sarcasm and irony in the world--a proper, a necessary, place. 10. I do not resist the complexity of life where I intuit this complexity is making a demand upon me and I seek to incorporate that complexity into my point of view. 11. I can laugh at myself. I can respond to a situation where reality shows me I was foolish or wrong. 12. I have some notion of what it means to sense the feedback that life or reality is giving me over-all in the way I go about living my personal existence. 13. My point of view is such that I do not have to become a negative person to defend it. 14. I have some sensitivity to recognize when I am in the presence of someone whose point of view seems to be taking in more reality or truth than my own point of view is--at least in a given circumstance. I try to adjust my point of view when this happens. 15. I do not knowingly persist in representing a point of view which I have already realized is wrong. 16. In some sense for me life is a miraculous thing. 17. My life is a perpetual movement and discovery and clarification; I do not let my point of view become static or petrified. 18. I believe I have known what it is like to be entirely vulnerable and open to another human being. 19. I am brave enough to stand up for my sense of truth where not to do so would be cowardly. 20. It is probably a dangerous thing to believe one can embody a final truth in one's consciousness. Everyone I have met, including myself, has a weakness. 21. I feel I bear a certain responsibility for my actions, and for being the conscious author of my own point of view--At least to a significant extent. Scoring: 2 points for SA; 1 point for A; 0 for Disagree; -1 for Strongly Disagree. Maximal score = 42
